An upgraded Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a veteran shuttle commander docked with the International Space Station Saturday evening after a two-day orbital chase, boosting the lab’s crew back to six. Astronaut Scott Kelly’s teenage daughter, Samantha, celebrating her birthday in Moscow, promptly asked her dad for an iPhone, “so I can keep up with your trip.”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t hear that,” Kelly replied from orbit during a call from the Russian mission control center.